I take your point. having said that however, I don't see the reason for paying $500 just for some 1.44 mb diskett with hard errors on it just so I can screw up windcrap 2000 or windcrap xp. no wonder I went to linux. it cost me bugger all. On Fri, 17 May 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi Greg. Just put a robots.txt file on the server and this should thwart most bots. It would however be better to discuss this stuff off-list probably. Get everyone who wants to work on this, and everyone cc's each other's messages so everyone in the project gets that msg. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gregory Nowak <greg at romualt.dhs.org> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:41 PM > Subject: Re: interesting experiment. > > > > Hey guys, > > > > I've been following this thread about the disk copying and stuff. I was wondering if you were aware that the archive for this list is accessible to anyone on the whole web? This means that all you are writing about is out there for the picking unless Kirk decides to remove it from the archive before google or any other search engine gets a cache of that archive. > > Greg > > > > > > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:32:06PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > Hi Shaun. It seems that some of the sectors are write protected. I'd > > > really like to know how they control the disk writing process, because > > > this would give us some good insite on how they generate keys. > > > > > > Gates go to hell, your OS is waiting for you there! > > > > > > On Fri, 17 May 2002, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > > > > > hi. > > > > I just tryed to use dd to see if in fact it would copy my jfw > > > > authorization disk and, as expected, it wouldn't. > > > > here's my output from dd to aid some poor unfortunate that still may want > > > > to persue this activity. > > > > captain-nemo at borg:~$ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=auth.img > > > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2870 > > > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2874 > > > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2876 > > > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2878 > > > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2870 > > > > dd: /dev/fd0: Input/output error > > > > 2864+0 records in > > > > 2864+0 records out > > > > captain-nemo at borg:~$ > > > > hth > > > > Shaun. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
